Source: Extract from The Synthesis of Yoga – VOLUME 23 & 24 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. With due credit to Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Published by Sri Aurobindo …
Source: Extract from Essays in Philosophy & Yoga – VOLUME 13 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO With due credit to Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram …
Source: Extract from Essays in Philosophy & Yoga – VOLUME 13 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO With due credit to Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram …
YOGA, says the Gita, is skill in works, and by this phrase the ancient Scripture meant that the transformation of mind and being to which it gave the name of …
THE WHOLE burden of our human progress has been an attempt to escape from the bondage to the body and the vital impulses. According to the scientific theory, the human being began as the animal, developed through the savage and consummated in the modern civilised man. The Indian theory is different.
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, till 1910 was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution.
Sri Aurobindo had begun the practice of Yoga in 1905 in Baroda. In 1908 he had the first of several fundamental spiritual realisations. In 1910 he withdrew from politics and went to Pondicherry in order to devote himself entirely to his inner spiritual life and work. During his forty years in Pondicherry he evolved a new method of spiritual practice, which he called the Integral Yoga. Its aim is a spiritual realisation that not only liberates man's consciousness but also transforms his nature. In 1926, with the help of his spiritual collaborator, the Mother, he founded the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Among his many writings are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and Savitri. Sri Aurobindo left his body on 5 December 1950.